Ukrainian citizens have registered 195 offshore companies

Access to the so-called “Panamas Papers” database has been made public by International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). The information was published on May 9, at 9 p.m. Kyiv time.

According to the data, 165 citizens of Ukraine have offshores. Ukrainians have registered 195 offshore companies.

Meanwhile, 4,5 thousand people from the USA and 2,2 thousand people from the Russian Federation have offshores.

The information about 200,000 individual and legal entities, mentioned by Mossack Fonseca Panamanian legal firm, including data about current owners, has also been published.

Earlier, journalists and dozens of media all over the planet simultaneously released materials about owners of large offshore businesses. The investigation is based on the so-called Panama Archive, the selection of documents belonging to Mossack Fonseca, Panama-based low-profile company.

The documents reveal activities of the company from 1977 till December 2015; they unfold stories about offshore mechanisms of concealing billions of dollars, involving former and current heads of states, and other famous political figures and celebrities. Among them are President Petro Poroshenko, ex-Prime Ministers Pavlo Lazarenko and Yulia Tymoshenko. The National Anti-Corruption Bureau stated that it refuses to investigate Poroshenko’s offshore activity.